46-30-01: Control Stick Horn Adjustment Screw
FAA order 46-30-01 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Control Stick Horn Adjustment Screw. It names Luscombe 8 Silvaire: about 1,420 aircraft on the U.S. register today, though an order usually covers particular versions or serial numbers rather than every one. System: other and general.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation, Inc.
- Models
- 8A
- On this site
- Luscombe 8 Silvaire 1,420 registered
Dates and paperwork
- Docket
- Unknown
- Status
- Current
- The FAA's document
- Read the order on the FAA's site
The order itself the regulatory text, as published
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46-30-01 LUSCOMBE: (Was Mandatory Note 1 of AD-694-4.) Applies Only to Model 8A Serial Numbers 2201 to 2614 Inclusive; 2616 to 2632 Inclusive; 2635, 2637, 2639, 2642, and 2645.
Compliance required prior to completion of next 10 hours of operation.
Replace the adjustment screw now installed in the lower end of the control stick horn, which is located beneath the floor boards with an AN 520-10-44 screw in order to prevent interference with the lower fuselage skin on the forward flange of the landing gear bulkhead.
(Luscombe Service Bulletin No. 2-46 covers this same subject.)
Related safety bulletins advice on the same designs, not orders
2017-06-05CE-17-14 · Main Landing Gear: Lower Leg Internal Corrosion
2014-02-13CE-14-09 · Luscombe Model 8A Fuel System
1997-05-15ACE-97-03 ·
Source: FAA Dynamic Regulatory System, airworthiness directives. The FAA's document is the authority; the register counts are this site's, from the FAA register of October 5, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/46-30-01.json · aircraft systems.